There is at least one town in the USA, Carmel, California (sometimes
called "Carmel-by-the-Sea" as there is also a Carmel Valley which is
a half-hour drive from Carmel inland). Carmel does not use addresses
per se using house numbers. I have no idea how the Post Office does
things -- it really must be quite annoying to them, but they
evidently manage somehow.
At least in the business district, you'll hear a description of where
a business is located as something like: "On Dolores between Fifth
and Sixth." That's how I've heard it on at least one radio ad.
Clearly, in Carmel (and perhaps Council Hill, Oklahoma?), we'll need
to leave the addr:housenumber out of OSM's data entirely, as there
really is no such thing. Some houses may have or be reasonably
well-known with what fits into OSM as an addr:housename, and indeed
there may even be a scheme (same one used by the Post Office?) which
does something similar to what the radio ads do for businesses. For
example, a particular residential house in Carmel might be assigned
as an address node tag:
addr:housename=Casanova Street, East side, third house south of 9th
I'm whole-cloth inventing this as an example, and again, it would be
good to know what the Post Office does. (Or even 911, if it is
discernable, as that might be more definitive as it seems more
local). But the main reason I share this knowledge is to demonstrate
that there is at least one place in the USA that has no numbered
addresses as we commonly experience them.
SteveA
California
This and many other annoying addressing schemes used to be common, but
I thought the enhanced 911 system did away with this sort of thing. I
did a quick google search and I can't find any address for that school
though.
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote:
A PO Box doesn't work for navigation purposes, which is what I thought we
were focusing on. Oddly enough, the school does have a mailbox on Third
near Pine. House numbers don't appear to be a thing in Council Hill, I
didn't see anything there (though I was pushing a deadline and running
behind, hence only focusing on Midway Schools, so I might have missed it;
the schools were definitely was unnumbered).
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